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Longitudinal cohort analysis is a powerful tool for helping colleges understand student performance. It involves tracking students as a group or cohort over a specified period of time. The results allow administrators, faculty, and staff to identify groups of students who are succeeding or falling...

This toolkit provides a format and outline for dialogue and deliberation by and for students about the role structural barriers play in student opportunity and success. This toolkit also generates ideas about how the college and wider community can take action to help the students who are most ...

Taking the Next Step distinguishes between milestones that must be attained in order to get to completion and success indicators that increase a student’s chances of completion. The authors review 11 cases of the use of intermediate measures by multistate, single-state or single-system, and multi-...

JFF identifies, develops, and promotes new education and workforce strategies that help communities, states, and the nation compete in a global economy. In 200 communities in 41 states, JFF improves the pathways leading from high school to college to family-sustaining careers. As a Founding Partner...

Indianapolis – Lumina Foundation for Education has committed up to $18 million in additional funds over five years to Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a multiyear initiative aimed at improving student success at the nation’s community colleges.

This short discussion paper is a tool to help colleges familiarize themselves with the Achieving the Dream perspective on equity. The piece helps colleges understand key concepts by providing definitions and examples of structural inequity and explaining the difference between equity and equality.